[Nyasa Times] Consumers in the country continue to dig deeper in their pockets to buy cooking oil as the prices of the commodity remains high despite removal of VAT on April 1, 202 [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[UN News] The world's plant protection body met on Tuesday, aiming to set new plant health standards to both safeguard human wellbeing and preserve food security, according to the [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[VOA] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says one quarter of Africa's 346 million people faces a "food security crisis." [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Premium Times] The president attributes Nigeria's prominence to the implementation of the "right policies" by his administration.. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[VOA] Nairobi -- U.S. government officials warn that many African countries will continue to face shortages and high food prices as long as Russia continues to wage war against Ukr [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[African Arguments] Critics say state-backed farming cooperatives have become a tool for recruiting people into the ruling party and are sowing division. [...]

Country: Burundi

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday disclosed that Nigeria was fast attaining the enviable status of being the leading fertiliser producer in Africa. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[The Herald] So far 2 000 joint farming ventures covering up to 200 000 hectares have been approved by Government to boost agriculture. [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Unicef] The sharp increase of the number of malnourished children in the recent years requires to act urgently not only to save lives, but also to prevent children from becoming m [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[New Dawn] The looming global food crisis appears to have already hit Liberia in the wake of growing scarcity of the nation's staple rice, on the local market despite the governmen [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[This Day] International aid agencies yesterday raised the alarm that the West African sub-region was currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people cur [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[DW] Africa's rapidly developing cannabis industry could soon supply the entire world. Uganda is already cultivating medical cannabis for the German pharmaceutical market. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Daily Trust] Towards enhancing agriculture and the creation of jobs, Dangote Fertiliser Limited is set to train over one million farmers in the next three years. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Apr-2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has disbursed N948 billion to 4, 478, 381 smallholder farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) across the country.     T [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar as the Director-General of National Agency for the Great Green Wall, an agency under th [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says it is deeply concerned about the food security situation in Ukraine and has warned of potential far-reaching [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Frame] As the curtain fell on the Afcon, many of Cameroon's citizens went back to what was already an everyday struggle to survive. In the end the showpiece achieved - and mea [...]

Country: Cameroon

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Rio de Janeiro/Chennai/Durban -- As the conflict enters its second month, its effects are being felt by farmers around the globe - but it could also be [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[VOA] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Aid convoys led by the U.N.'s World Food Program (WPF) have entered Ethiopian territory controlled by Tigrayan rebels for the first time since Decemb [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Republic] The Government of Liberia has rejected claims of a shortage of Liberia's staple [rice] and has informed the general public that there is absolutely no shortage of ri [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Times] Rwanda is setting up a national artificial insemination (AI) centre expected to help increase the country's cattle production in terms of milk and beef yields. [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[Govt of SA] The North West Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has placed five farms on quarantine and forward traced farms on precautionary quarantine following Foot [...]

Country: South Africa

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[RFI] Malawi -- Faced with the rising cost of fertiliser and effects of climate change, farmers in Malawi are being encouraged to diversify their crops to become less dependent on [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[DW] Millions of people in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia face starvation due to delayed rains and a lackluster growing season. Aid organizations warn of a "catastrophe" if urgent ac [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Apr-2022

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Reshaping investment away from deforestation is tough - but these changes could help [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 01-Apr-2022